Sometimes I think it's getting better
And then it gets much worse
Is it just part of the process?
Jesus Christ, it hurts
Actors and Animators should go on strike next tbh. Especially cgi animators. Put the fear back into Hollywood
Animators? Yes. Actors? If youre talking ppl like RDJ or Jamie Lee Curtis or what have you. They have more than enough fucking money. Take a look at one production cost and see how much these people are paid.
My dad is an actor/playwrite. He has to constantly search for new gigs to make ends meet, and even then ends up doing retail or lyft or doordash a lot of the time between gigs.
And my parents don't live in a huge house in New York or LA, it's a tiny townhouse in a really small city. My mom's the one who really pays the mortgage with her events organizer and house manager jobs at local theatres, and even then they struggle to afford living expenses. They used food stamps when I was a kid - not every month, but enough that I see it as a normal thing to do.
And when he does get gigs, especially like big tv gigs, working conditions are CRAP. He nearly got severe hypothermia once for having to jump in a freezing cold river in early winter from 11pm-3am, repeatedly, for a shot they didn't even end up USING.
Scheduling is abysmal, overtime is never properly compensated for, the jobs are DANGEROUS (mostly on a physical fatigue level), and work is contractual by nature. Are there some contracts that are ridiculously good? Yes, that's how contract-based work tends to happen for a lucky few.
But getting a contract like that is like winning the lottery, and even then they can be really exploitative if you don't have a kickass agent and/or a really good entertainment lawyer. There aren't really steady 9-5 full time acting jobs with benefits the way there are with other jobs. It's difficult to get any gigs in the first place, I cannot emphasize enough how much it is a constant job search.
And that's not even getting into the horrendous conditions and disrespect for voice actors. Actors should ABSOLUTELY go on strike
I fucking hope RDJ and Will Smith and everyone on top strike too. You want a real impact? Let's see what happens when top names refuse to work until the people on the bottom are compensated fairly too.
Being able to pretend it's just some uppity character actors or commercial actors lets studios distract. When there's no star for the best blockbuster to be, they can't ignore the demands.
The top-paid members of an industry strike in support of better working conditions for their coworkers, not for more money. Neil Gaiman and George RR Martin aren't striking because they want or expect to be paid more, they're striking to support the entire rest of their industry because they care about it.
Not to mention, even the big names are often treated like absolute shit.
Kate Winslet nearly got hypothermia on multiple occasions whilst filming titanic because, despite the fact that the whole thing was happening on a carefully controlled set and thus could have the water at whatever temperature he wanted, James Cameron wanted to take the "acting" out of acting and he had the water set to be as cold as possible without it being frozen. He called it method acting. He didn't bother to see if Kate could ACT as though the water was one-degree above freezing; he just called it right from the go and was like, hey, what if I make my lead actress spend several days getting in and out of BORDERLINE FREEZING WATER, so that it will look realistic.
Her chattering teeth and whole body tremors? Yeah, not acting. That was her body on the edge of actual real life hypothermia.
And look at the way they treat men these days with making them fast and dehydrate to the point of collapse, just so the director can get two seconds worth of a shot where their muscles and veins are all bulging unnaturally.
When he was filming Logan (I think it was Logan) Hugh Jackman literally DID collapse. One of the scenes of him all bare-chested and muscly and roaring angrily? Is a much shorter scene than it was supposed to be, because that's all they managed to get out of him before he LITERALLY PASSED OUT.
And these are the big name lead actors who are getting treated like this. If THEY are being treated so appallingly, what hope in hell do the smaller actors have of not being worked into the ground?
YES, the actors should go on strike. Yes, including the biggest-name stars who've never been mistreated and who get the cushiest most comfortable jobs. They should go on strike too because they support the improved conditions and pay for all those in their industry who ARENT treated well. Which is most of them.
happy pride month to lgbt people who are really boring. we deserve love too
pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them
one thing i need to start living by is “become the thing that you want” if i want friends who throw themed parties maybe i should start throwing those parties. if i want someone who writes me love letters maybe i should start writing letters for the people i love. if i want to hang out at museums and pretty cafes maybe i should invite my friends to these places. and maybe even then i won’t find the kind of people i want to be around. but then i would have become the exact person i want to be around. and maybe that’s good enough.
I think the biggest problem with MCU movies creatively is that they don't feel like superhero movies anymore
Married behaviour is when you know exactly where your husband keeps his stuff
Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.
We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.
Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker
This is also, btw, how the US drastically reduced drunk driving in the US. Telling people they shouldn’t drive when intoxicated made absolutely zero difference. A slogan-and-ad-campaign for “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk!” changed drinking culture. Going after the bystanders is quite often the most effective thing to do in any social change.
the pretty boy at his panel!!
these amazing photos were taken by @/shotbycarlyp on Twitter!! 😊
ppl who are on board with the word queer but don’t want cishets to use it are missing the point of reclaiming it. it’s one thing if the person in question is using it explicitly as a slur, but if they’re just using it to refer to queer people and you still find that offensive, you haven’t unpacked your discomfort around the word queer.
like truly, hearing my rabbi say “queer people” in the most loving and awestruck tone is a healing experience every single time. seriously y’all i think we forget that there are cishet people out there who absolutely fucking love us and will fight to the death for us. it’s easy to think we’re alone because they won’t always understand what we’re going through, or to be frustrated because people aren’t doing enough to stop the current wave of hate, but i promise you that if you get involved in local queer activism you will absolutely see cishet people there testifying for their kids and their partners and their friends and using their privilege to appeal to lawmakers. when they say “queer” they don’t mean “those people who are different from me but i guess they deserve rights” they mean “my dearly beloved friends who deserve the world.”
he's literally the most miserable creature in this whole wide world
I saw someone else say it recently but it’s really hard to tell anymore if the absolute rage at companies for having rainbow logos during Pride comes from the left or right…yeah sure, point out these companies’ hypocrisy, that’s fine, but there was a time not long ago at all when Target never had a section of clothes dedicated to Pride Month, for example. That mainstream visibility is still new and it’s not trivial—in fact, it’s under attack by right wing politicians. Seeing something like that in public is still unthinkable in many parts of the world too, and people lose sight of that. Idk like. Pulse was only 6 years ago. Republicans are going back to openly calling gay people groomers. Trans people are being attacked constantly. In my humble opinion I think it’s a sign of misplaced priorities to pop a blood vessel over a rainbow logo. There are bigger fish to fry
And this, right here, is why "leftists" weeping and wailing over companies showing support of Pride are Terminally Online and deeply unserious (including the people who got big mad in the notes of this very post when I first made it). This^ is what’s happening in the real world, the real world where another mass shooting at another gay nightclub happened in the year since I made this post. Imagine having so little real-life perspective and historical context that you bitch and moan every June over companies selling rainbow clothes.
Because the right is trying to terrorize people back into the closet and erase the LGBT community's place in society, gay, bi, and trans people being visible and accepted in mainstream society is more important than people being all up in their big feelings about capitalism on the internet.
the hobbit movies were great because peter jackson was like "i want to adapt the hobbit into a movie" and warner brothers was like "no you're gonna make it a trilogy for no reason and make us a billion dollars" and richard armitage was like "the studio has tricked me, classically trained richard armitage, into being here so i'm going to portray a closeted homosexual" and martin freeman was like "i'm in a new zealand commercial!!"
